vaccine

During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, vaccines for the virus became available in large quantities only after human infections peaked. To accelerate vaccine availability for future pandemics, we developed a synthetic approach that very rapidly generated vaccine viruses from sequence...

In this paper, Boudreau et al. examined the effectiveness of using a mutant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) as a transduction and maturation vector for dendritic cells (DC) as an ex vivo vaccine of sorts. Briefly, cells from the bone marrow of...

There are many reasons why people claim that they will never get the flu vaccine. I would like to respond to some of those “myths” and unfounded concerns, and encourage all whom are not contraindicated from receiving the vaccine to...